Recent Trends in Intelligent and Emerging Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Intelligent Applications in Communication

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. ANFIS-Based Symbol Recovery in Multi-antenna Stochastic Channels

      • Banti Das, Manasjyoti Bhuyan, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma

      Pages 3-18

   3. STBC Decoding with ANN in Wireless Communication

      • Samar Jyoti Saikia, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma

      Pages 19-28

   4. Carrier Phase Detection of Faded Signals Using Digital Phase-Locked Loop

      • Basab Bijoy Purkayastha, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma

      Pages 29-47

   5. Adaptive MRC for Stochastic Wireless Channels

      • Atlanta Choudhury, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma

      Pages 49-59

   6. ZF- and MMSE Based-Equalizer Design in IEEE 802.15.4a UWB Channel

      • Tapashi Thakuria, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma

      Pages 61-73

3. Selected Issues in Biomedical and Social Science

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Role of Baby’s Birth Symptoms and Mother’s Pregnancy Conditions on Children’s Disability Determined Using Multiple Regression and ANN

      • Jumi Kalita, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma, Pranita Sarmah

      Pages 77-86

   3. A Soft Computational Framework to Predict Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) from Protein Structure

      • Hemashree Bordoloi, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma

      Pages 87-93

   4. Identification of Stages of Industrial Sickness of Large- and Medium-Scale Units Using Certain Soft-Computational Approach

      • Deepak Goswami, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma, Padma Lochan Hazarika

      Pages 95-112

4. HCI and Bio-inspired System Design

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Adaptive Hand Segmentation and Tracking for Application in Continuous Hand Gesture Recognition

      • Dharani Mazumdar, Madhurjya Kumar Nayak, Anjan Kumar Talukdar

      Pages 115-124

   3. Multicore Parallel Computing and DSP Processor for the Design of Bio-inspired Soft Computing Framework for Speech and Image Processing Applications

      • Dipjyoti Sarma, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma

      Pages 125-134

5. Soft Computing and Hybrid System Based Speech Processing Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. Comparative Analysis of Neuro-Fuzzy Based Approaches for Speech Data Clustering

      • Pallabi Talukdar, Mousmita Sarma, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma

      Pages 137-150

   3. Effective Speech Signal Reconstruction Technique Using Empirical Mode Decomposition Under Various Conditions

      • Nisha Goswami, Mousmita Sarma, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma

      Pages 151-161

   4. Assamese Vowel Speech Recognition Using GMM and ANN Approaches

      • Debashis Dev Misra, Krishna Dutta, Utpal Bhattacharjee, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma, Pradyut Kumar Goswami

      Pages 163-170

6. Review Chapters on Selected Areas

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. Speech Recognition in Indian Languages—A Survey

      • Mousmita Sarma, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma

      Pages 173-187

It is a compilation of research works related to intelligent and emerging system design using a range of tools including soft-computation. The book includes reviews, actual designs, research works, discussion and experimental results related to works in the areas of communication, computation, vision sciences, bio-inspired system design, social dynamic, related process design, etc. The audience of this book is expected to be researchers who deal with intelligent and emerging system design through mathematical and computational modeling and experimental designs. Specifically, audiences that are broadly involved in the domains of electronics and communication, electrical engineering, mathematics, computer science, other applied informatics domains and related areas will find the book interesting. The works included in the book broadly covers all areas of Electronics and Communication Engineering and Technology, Soft-computational Applications, Human Computer Interactive Designs and Social and Economic Dynamics. The works included in the volume have been grouped into Communication, Biomedical and Social Science, HCI and Bio-inspired System Design, Speech Processing and Review totaling sixteen contributions.

• Bio-inspired System Design
• Empirical Mode Decomposition
• Human Computer Interactive Designs
• Neuro-Fuzzy Systems
• Recurrent Neural Network
• Soft-computational Applications

• Department of Electronics and Communication Technology, Gauhati University, Guwahati, India

  Kandarpa Kumar Sarma

• Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Gauhati University, Guwahati, India

  Manash Pratim Sarma

• Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Gauhati University, Guwahati, India

  Mousmita Sarma

Dr. Kandarpa Kumar Sarma, currently Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Technology, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India, has over seventeen years of professional experience. He has taught all areas of UG/PG level electronics courses including soft computing, mobile communication, pattern recognition, digital signal and image processing. He obtained M.Tech in Signal Processing in 2005 and subsequently completed PhD in the area of Mobile Communication both from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India. He has authored seven books, several book chapters, several peer-reviewed research papers in international conference proceedings and journals. His areas of interest are soft-computation and its applications, knowledge aided system design, MIMO, mobile communication, antenna design, speech processing, document image analysis and signal processing applications in high energy physics, neuro-computing and computational models for social-science applications. He is senior member IEEE (USA), Fellow IETE (India), Member International Neural Network Society (INNS, USA), Life Member ISTE (India) and Life Member CSI (India). He serves as an Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Intelligent System Design and Computing (IJISDC, UK), guest editor of several international journals, reviewer of over thirty international journals and reviewer/TPC member of over hundred international conferences.

Mr. Manash Pratim Sarma is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Gauhati University, Assam, India. He earned M.Sc. in Electronics Science from Gauhati University, Assam, India in 2008. He also completed M.Tech. in Electronics Design and Technology from Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam, India, in 2010. He has authored several peer-reviewed publications in international journals, international and national conference proceedings. He has alsoserved as reviewer in many international conferences and journals. His areas of interests include wireless communication and VLSI design for high data rate communications.

Ms. Mousmita Sarma is currently working as Research Consultant at M/s. SpeecHWareNet Pvt. (I) Ltd., Technology Incubation Center, IIT Guwahati, Assam, India. She completed M.Sc. in Electronics and Communication Technology from Gauhati University, India in 2010. She also completed M.Tech. from the same institution in 2012 with specialization in Speech Processing and Recognition. She has co-authored two books and published several peer-reviewed research papers in international conference proceedings and journals. She serves as reviewer to several journals and IEEE international and national conferences. Her areas of interest include speech recognition, soft-computation and HCI applications.

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